Nate Ruben, Harper College Alum

Communications

May 10, 2017

May 10, 2017

I enrolled at Harper College after leaving a 4-year university. Changing my focus
from engineering to business, I started the Business Administration track in the summer
of 2013. During the spring of 2014, I enrolled in a marketing internship course with
Professor Robin James where I studied social media, event management/promotion, and
public relations.

The experience I had motivated me to start my own business in June 2014, Ruben Digital
Media. From then until I graduated in Dec 2015, I was able to utilize Harper Business
classes to build and grow my business. Today, I employ my mom and my sister, another
Harper alum who graduated in December 2016. We have served over 30 clients in two
years, have trained two interns, and are opening up an intern search now looking for
four new team members.

I am grateful for my experience in the Harper Business simulation with Professors
Jamie Nolan and J.T. White. The collaborative nature of the class really helped create
an environment of multi-functional units. I could not be more proud to be a Harper
Hawk alum, and one day, when people type Harper College into Google, I would like
to be one of the people that appears in "notable alumni”.